Definition of sough

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Sough (v. i.) A cant or whining mode of speaking, especially in preaching or praying..

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Request :: Request (n.) A state of being desired or held in such estimation as to be sought after or asked for; demand.
Swimmer :: Swimbel (n.) A moaning or sighing sound or noise; a sough.
Implore :: Implore (v. t.) To call upon, or for, in supplication; to beseech; to prey to, or for, earnestly; to petition with urency; to entreat; to beg; -- followed directly by the word expressing the thing sought, or the person from whom it is sought..
Romanticism :: Romanticism (n.) A fondness for romantic characteristics or peculiarities; specifically, in modern literature, an aiming at romantic effects; -- applied to the productions of a school of writers who sought to revive certain medi/val forms and methods in opposition to the so-called classical style..
Competition :: Competition (n.) The act of seeking, or endeavoring to gain, what another is endeavoring to gain at the same time; common strife for the same objects; strife for superiority; emulous contest; rivalry, as for approbation, for a prize, or as where two or more persons are engaged in the same business and each seeking patronage; -- followed by for before the object sought, and with before the person or thing competed with..
Besought :: Besought (imp. & p. p.) of Beseec.
Sought :: Sought (imp. & p. p.) of See.
Sough :: Sough (v. i.) A cant or whining mode of speaking, especially in preaching or praying..
Syncretistic :: Syncretist (n.) an adherent of George Calixtus and other Germans of the seventeenth century, who sought to unite or reconcile the Protestant sects with each other and with the Roman Catholics, and thus occasioned a long and violent controversy in the Lutheran church..
Requisitory :: Requisitory (a.) Sought for; demanded.
Rage :: Rage (n.) The subject of eager desire; that which is sought after, or prosecuted, with unreasonable or excessive passion; as, to be all the rage..
Sough :: Sough (v. i.) To whistle or sigh, as the wind..
Burn :: Burn (v. i.) In certain games, to approach near to a concealed object which is sought..
Swough :: Swough (n.) A sound; a groan; a moan; a sough.
Proportion :: Proportion (n.) The rule of three, in arithmetic, in which the three given terms, together with the one sought, are proportional..
Spagyrist :: Spagyrist (n.) One of a sect which arose in the days of alchemy, who sought to discover remedies for disease by chemical means. The spagyrists historically preceded the iatrochemists..
Ingratiate :: Ingratiate (v. t.) To introduce or commend to the favor of another; to bring into favor; to insinuate; -- used reflexively, and followed by with before the person whose favor is sought..
Mathematics :: Mathematics (n.) That science, or class of sciences, which treats of the exact relations existing between quantities or magnitudes, and of the methods by which, in accordance with these relations, quantities sought are deducible from other quantities known or supposed; the science of spatial and quantitative relations..
Garnishee :: Garnishee (v. t.) To attach (the fund or property sought to be secured by garnishment); to trustee.
Transform :: Transform (v. t.) To change into another substance; to transmute; as, the alchemists sought to transform lead into gold..
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